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Night Unto Night (1949)
A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida’s east coast. In its shadows, two people meet: a scientist haunted by incurable illness and a…
King of the Rocket Men (1949)
Prof. Millard pretends to be dead and helps Jeff King ferret out Vulcan, the evil traitor at the science academy. Donning his Rocket Man costume King goes from one hair…
Hold That Baby! (1949)
While working in a laundromat, the boys find a baby hidden among the linen. They soon find out that the baby, who is the heir to a fortune, has been…
Winter Storage (1949)
It’s October 7th and Chip is working industriously to store enough acorns in the tree for the winter. Dale would rather sleep in his matchbox, but an angry kick from…
Hellfire (1949)
Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher’s mission of building a…
Mississippi Rhythm (1949)
On board a riverboat bound for Creek City, singer Jimmie Davis, who is going to become half-owner of a land development company willed to him by his uncle, shares a…
Streets of Laredo (1949)
Texas, 1878: cheerful outlaw-buddies Jim, Lorn and Wahoo rescue spunky orphan Rannie Carter from rustling racketeers, then are forced to separate. Lorn goes on to bigger and better robberies, while…
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)
Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news for anything that happens to be…
Lumberjack and Jill (1949)
Popeye and Bluto are lumberjacks who compete for the affections of their new cook, Olive Oyl.
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer Boris Karloff (1949)
Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman…
Johnny Allegro (1949)
Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he’s the hunted.
The Lady Gambles (1949)
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked…
Canadian Pacific (1949)
A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.
The Devil’s Sleep (1949)
Innocent youth trapped in a hopped-up hell.
Across The Rio Grande (1949)
Outlaws attempting to kidnap Steve Blaine from a stagecoach are ran off by the sharpshooting of his sister, Sally and rescuers Jimmy Wakely and Cannonball Taylor. Steve is investigating his…
The Sun Comes Up (1949)
Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to put aside her bitterness and grief as she grows to love a young orphan boy…
Home of the Brave (1949)
A sensitive, educated black man’s World War II-time problems. This is essentially the duplicate of his peace-time problems which are pointed up in a flashback of his life, and primarily…
The Stratton Story (1949)
Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms.
The Window (1949)
An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can’t get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking him seriously are the…
Africa Screams (1949)
When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking that his friend Stanley knows all there is to know about Africa, they are abducted and ordered to lead Diana and her henchmen…
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and limited by the lighthearted musical roles he directs…
The Younger Brothers (1949)
Brothers who rode with a notorious outlaw gang led by Frank and Jesse James decide to go straight and try to get pardons so they can return to a law-abiding…
Stampede (1949)
In 1887 Arizona, in the context of the settler-vs-cattleman struggle, two rancher brothers fall in-love with the same settler girl while crooked businessmen try to swindle both sides.
Flamingo Road (1949)
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
The Secret Garden (1949)
When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she encounters at…
Pluto’s Sweater (1949)
Minnie Mouse knits a sweater for Pluto. When she puts it on him, Pluto does whatever he can to try to get it off, eventually shrinking it to the perfect…
Red Canyon (1949)
A former outlaw goes straight and is determined to catch and tame a wild stallion. Western.
Sky Dragon (1949)
All the passengers on an airplane headed for San Francisco are drugged, and when they wake up, it is discovered that a quarter-million dollars is missing. Charlie Chan–and, of course,…
Meditation on Violence (1949)
Chao-Li Chi shadow boxes indoors and practices with a sword outdoors. Theoretically, the film describes in a single continuous movement three degrees of traditional Chinese boxing, Wu-tang, Shao-lin, and Shao-lin…
The Crooked Way (1949)
A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.
Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)
A federal agent infiltrates a crime syndicate.
Adventure in Baltimore (1949)
Dinah Sheldon is a student at an exclusive girl’s school who starts campaigning for women’s rights. Her minister father and her boyfriend Tom Wade do not approve.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1949)
A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1905 auto mechanic, to Arthurian England, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious…
My Dream Is Yours (1949)
Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace him. In New York, he finds Martha Gibson,…
Tulsa (1949)
It’s Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing’s rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing…
Big Jack (1949)
Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.
Champion (1949)
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
Bride of Vengeance (1949)
The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia’s Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murders his sister’s husband and makes…
Homicide (1949)
Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the case is closed after the only witness is found dead. Will Michael be able to…
Ma and Pa Kettle (1949)
The Kettles and their fifteen children are about to be evicted from their rundown rustic home when Pa wins the grand prize by coming up with a new tobacco slogan….